On 10/13/2010 10:07 AM, Alexander Stein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to detect whether the CAN frame actually was sent on the bus? 
> I 
> guess the write call on the socket returns immediately and the data will be 
> buffered in kernel space. The cangen demo also does optionally a POLLOUT poll 
> on the CAN socket, but I expect this will only show if there is free buffer 
> available.
> So, what can I do to get the information when the frame was sent?

You can switch the socket to receive it's own messages
("setsockopt(CAN_RAW_RECV_OWN_MSGS)"). There's an ongoing discussion
about this on socketcan-core:

http://old.nabble.com/Self-reception-and-more-td29760073.html
http://old.nabble.com/Self-reception-td29932236.html

cheers, Marc

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